Usually means: Responds to harm with harm.
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  1. retaliates: Merriam-Webster
  2. retaliates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retaliates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Retaliates, retaliates: Wordnik
  5. retaliates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retaliates: Wiktionary
  7. retaliates: Dictionary.com
  8. retaliates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. retaliates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. retaliates: Legal dictionary

(Note: See retaliate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retaliate)

verb:  (intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
verb:  (transitive) To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
▸ Also see retaliate


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